Preaching, Building, and Burying

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Friars in the Medieval City

Caroline Bruzelius

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Yale University Press
05 August 2014

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; History; Medieval history; Church history; Bargains

Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and burial: association with friars was believed to reduce the suffering of purgatory. Mendicant convents became urban cemeteries, warehouses filled with family tombs, flags, shields, and private altars.

As mendicants became progressively institutionalized and sought legitimacy, friars adopted the architectural structures of monasticism: chapter houses, cloisters, dormitories, and refectories. They also created piazzas for preaching and burying outside their churches. Construction depended on assembling adequate funding from communes, confraternities, and private individuals; it was also sometimes supported by the expropriation of property from heretics. Because of irregular funding, construction was episodic, with substantial changes in scale and design. Choir screens served as temporary west façades while funds were raised for completion. This is the first book to analyze the friars' influence on the growth and transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces.

By: Caroline Bruzelius
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9780300203844
ISBN 10: 0300203845
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 05 August 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Caroline Bruzelius is the A. M. Cogan Professor of History of Art at Duke University.